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February 16th, 2012

only rodgers menzies could get away with handing me a gallon-size ziplock bag full of chipped paint and saying, “here you go, nancy drew!”  as you know, one does not turn down a request from the lovely mr. m., and so i packed up my glazing medium, tints, and brushes, and went to one of the most fabulous old homes in memphis to do a little detective work.

one of the dining room walls had been damaged by water, and our lovely client wanted to replicate the existing fantasy-glazed finish.  rodgers knew the base coat: benjamin moore’s dijon, #193.  working to develop the glazes from the chips of the old finish, and guided by the pattern on the current walls, i did my best.

here is a corner, before (and please excuse the color cast in this image – yikes!):

and after:

here are some other views:

not mrs. jones’s usual bag, but a very fun challenge, and for truly one of the nicest, funniest, most considerate people i’ve ever worked for.  oh, and lovely she has these fab old dining room chairs…here’s a detail of the finish: